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  2. Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia

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    In the years after World War II, a group of New York artists started one of the first true schools of artists in America, bringing about a new era in American artwork: abstract expressionism. This led to the American art boom that brought about styles such as Pop Art. This also helped to make New York into a cultural and artistic hub. [63]

  3. Minimalism (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in postWorld War II ...

  4. Category:Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically ...

  5. Visual art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the years after World War II, a group of New York artists formed the first American movement to exert major influence internationally: abstract expressionism. This term, which had first been used in 1919 in Berlin, was used again in 1946 by Robert Coates in The New York Times , and was taken up by the two major art critics of that time ...

  6. Mid-century modern - Wikipedia

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    Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.

  7. Postmodern art - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence Alloway used the term "Pop art" to describe paintings celebrating consumerism of the post World War II era. This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated, material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass ...

  8. Late modernism - Wikipedia

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    The term "pop art" was used by Lawrence Alloway to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II era. [37] This movement rejected abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and ...

  9. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau: Realism: The mid-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns [40]